"Lepanto was Europe's Trafalgar, a total victory that restored Christian morale"

The carnage at Lepanto was staggering. In just four hours 40,000 men were killed - - a rate of slaughter not surpassed until the Battle of Loos in 1915.Forty-thousand dead on the Ottoman side, ten-thousand Holy League combatants perished as well.

"For Europe it [Lepanto] was a triumph equivalent to Trafalgar, and was a total victory that restored Christian morale after two centuries of defeat by the Ottoman empire."